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Inspired by French Riviera, powered by Sweden, taking root in Cape Town
“Magic happens when there is diversity”: Stephan Ekbergh on Innovation City Cape Town TRAVEL entrepreneur and CEO of Travelstart, Stephan Ekbergh, is embarking on a new project, Innovation City, to...
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RedDoorz CEO on SEA potential, performance marketing lessons and growing up fast
Digitisation accelerated among consumers as well as independent hotel owners YEOH Siew Hoon interviewed Amit Saberwal, CEO of RedDoorz, Southeast Asia’s largest technology-driven hotel management...
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Letter from Ohio: Rock & roll, small towns and apple pie
CLEVELAND, Ohio, may not be the most obvious destination for a first holiday in 20 months, but it certainly yields the most unexpected discoveries. And perhaps this could be the way post-pandemic...
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Fighting for the Great Cruise Comeback
Cruise lines face vaccination and sustainability battles but “people are splurging again” ATTENDING my first Cruiseworld conference in Miami, organised by TravelWeekly, I am struck by three things....
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“Africa is like startup”, says Yanolja’s Jongyoon
South Korean giant close to sealing partnership or acquisition deal as it pursues bid to grow to decacorn JONGYOON Kim, CEO of Yanolja and Yanolja Cloud, is excited about the African market because he...
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Letter from Paris: Down here, it’s normal. Out there, it’s not
“I HAD forgotten how much I missed this,” said the passenger seated next to me as our aircraft taxied to the gate at Newark Airport. “This?”, I asked politely, even though I was anxious as hell to get...
View ArticleVelocity adds three new startups to portfolio
TRAVEL and hospitality-focused venture capital firm, Velocity Ventures, has announced three new investments in travel and food and beverage (F&B) tech early-stage startups: Hong Kong-based travel...
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Think novel practice and how to avoid the hippo problem
Covid has changed rules globally, learn from “lean startup Africa” IN a “lean startup” continent like Africa, “novel” practices work best when it comes to innovation, according to Professor Hemmanth...
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Ready to be a giddy GOAT? Yes, it’s time to go BIG
Yeoh Siew Hoon feels like a kid in a candy store after a marathon trip across the US and Europe I’VE always fancied myself to be a bit of an eagle (free, fast and flying high) or an owl (wise and...
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D’EDGE accelerates on Europe, consolidates in APAC as pandemic rages on
IF there is one thing the pandemic has done, it’s forced global companies to retreat to local and regional frontiers and Paris-based D-EDGE Hospitality Solutions is certainly looking at the Asia...
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Pandemic boom in fitness gives Rungo wings to fly
WiT Startup Pitch 2021 finalist Rungo, described as the “#1 running app for discovering the best routes in the world”, is hoping to tap into the pandemic-induced craze of running, walking and general...
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Cruising to nowhere getting somewhere, as domestic cruises resume in Malaysia...
Cross-border cruising on table, Singapore-Penang-Phuket itinerary being planned IT is ironic that even though air travel in Asia is going nowhere, the only sector that seems to be going somewhere even...
View ArticleHere’s to more jetlag and more “defiant soldiers” in 2022
THIS is the longest jetlag I’ve ever had, and I am enjoying every moment of it. In my youth, or as we would say in Singlish “when young time”, I reveled in my jetlag. Those sleepless hours in the...
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To API or not? Travel agents face dilemma as cruising distribution undergoes...
New players like Klook, Lazada swooping into vacuum created by pandemic – sales went from zero to “couple of million dollars” HARRY Sommer, president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, told a good...
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The boy who liked to fix things and now he wants to fix corporate travel tech
After a three-decade journey, Johnny Thorsen believes he’s in right spot at right time to achieve life’s ambition EVEN as a child, Johnny Thorsen remembers his interest in pulling things apart and...
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New generation of startups will change France’s travel scene, and why DMCs...
Cambon Partners’ Morgann Lesne on what makes French travel tech tick or not tick these days HAVING lunch with investment banker Morgann Lesne in Paris late December, our conversation turned to the...
View ArticleWelcome to a year that requires grit, strength and a leap of faith
CLOSING out the year, battered by news of yet another Greek tragedy unfolding in our world and the travel industry, I was determined to start 2022 on an optimistic note. So I listened to an interview...
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From Volaris to OYO, why Ramirez chose to have skin in the game at Katanox
JULIANA Ramirez was working at OYO Hotels when she got a visit from the founders of Katanox, the startup offering direct API connectivity between sellers and hotels. Ramirez, who has just joined OYO...
View ArticleWhat a journey ahead – buzzwords for 2022
New Normal, Metaverse, “I minted my own NFT”, Connectivity – what’s yours? WELL, 2021 has been quite the journey and it looks like we could be in for another journey in 2022, the way the year is...
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From sake tourism to temple stays, ESG to metaverse, North Asia waits...
“KIKO No Ikioi” – Japanese saying for “no choice but to carry on” – and travel companies in North Asia have certainly carried on even though cross-border travel remains at a standstill, two years into...
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